Helter Skullter

[aquaMat]

You're absolute right Joe.... except I have to correct one tiny bit... it was Dennis, not Brian Wilson who - for a short while - was friends with (a pre-murder) Charlie Manson.

And the Beach Boys even nicked Manson's song

Cease To Exist

and recorded it, albeit with a different title.

And before some over-politically-correct people get upset: My calling my new mansions

The Mansion Family

was of course mainly based on that funny word-play....and does in no way whatsoever express or indicate that I think the Tate & LaBianca murders were

cool

or something. BUT: Manson as a figure and the whole case is indeed an interesting part of history..... and you can accuse Manson of many things, but NOT of having no charisma or being boring.

I remember (in the early 80s) when I read Ed Sanders' interesting book

The Family

...still the best book on the subject, BTW... that I was impressed..... but not by the man, let alone his crimes.... but the whole story, with all its interesting connotations, the Beatles and Beach Boys tie-ins, Polanski, Tate..... Bobby Beausoleil, Kenneth Anger etc. etc.

Boring it ain't.

Now back to Midnight Mansion.